Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions; non−working day and non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | March 2013 (revised) | April 2013 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | April 2013 | ||||||||||||||
| Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | ||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| 1) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| 2) Direct investment: assets refer to direct investment abroad and liabilities to direct investment in the euro area. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 33.9 | 3,042.6 | 3,008.8 | 162.0 | 3,165.7 | 3,003.7 | 24.9 | 268.4 | 243.5 | 15.3 | 265.0 | 249.7 | |||
| Goods | 31.0 | 1,834.4 | 1,803.5 | 140.3 | 1,934.3 | 1,794.1 | 24.7 | 168.8 | 144.1 | 16.9 | 165.3 | 148.3 | |||
| Services | 82.7 | 596.0 | 513.3 | 92.2 | 630.3 | 538.1 | 6.5 | 50.0 | 43.5 | 7.5 | 51.1 | 43.6 | |||
| Income | 33.5 | 516.2 | 482.7 | 38.7 | 501.0 | 462.3 | 4.8 | 43.2 | 38.5 | 2.1 | 42.1 | 40.0 | |||
| Current transfers | -113.4 | 96.0 | 209.3 | -109.2 | 100.0 | 209.3 | -11.0 | 6.4 | 17.4 | -11.2 | 6.5 | 17.8 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 12.0 | 26.2 | 14.2 | 16.7 | 30.3 | 13.5 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -30.6 | -193.0 | -26.6 | -16.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -68.0 | -341.1 | 273.1 | -70.5 | -197.0 | 126.5 | -14.6 | -29.8 | 15.1 | -6.4 | -12.4 | 6.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 9.0 | -282.7 | 291.7 | -37.9 | -157.2 | 119.3 | 1.9 | -11.0 | 12.8 | -8.3 | -10.5 | 2.1 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -77.0 | -58.4 | -18.6 | -32.5 | -39.8 | 7.3 | -16.5 | -18.8 | 2.3 | 1.9 | -1.9 | 3.8 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 48.8 | -6.3 | 55.1 | 154.6 | -210.6 | 365.1 | 6.8 | -24.2 | 31.0 | -2.8 | -41.2 | 38.3 | |||
| Equity | 66.4 | 62.0 | 4.5 | 50.7 | -116.5 | 167.1 | -0.4 | -26.7 | 26.3 | -6.2 | -16.7 | 10.5 | |||
| Debt instruments | -17.7 | -68.3 | 50.6 | 103.9 | -94.1 | 198.0 | 7.2 | 2.5 | 4.7 | 3.3 | -24.5 | 27.8 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 68.3 | -24.0 | 92.3 | 84.9 | -98.8 | 183.8 | 5.4 | 1.4 | 4.0 | 19.2 | -5.4 | 24.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | -85.9 | -44.3 | -41.7 | 19.0 | 4.8 | 14.2 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | -15.9 | -19.1 | 3.2 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -19.2 | -347.4 | 328.2 | 84.1 | -407.6 | 491.7 | -7.9 | -53.9 | 46.1 | -9.3 | -53.5 | 44.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -20.6 | 21.9 | 3.4 | -3.3 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 18.8 | -77.4 | 96.3 | -290.0 | -26.7 | -263.2 | -24.3 | 32.8 | -57.1 | -3.4 | -74.0 | 70.6 | |||
| Eurosystem | 62.8 | 8.9 | 53.9 | 59.8 | 1.6 | 58.2 | 5.7 | 6.4 | -0.6 | 2.1 | 3.1 | -1.1 | |||
| General government | 56.6 | -4.4 | 61.0 | -16.7 | -6.0 | -10.7 | 1.2 | 1.5 | -0.3 | -3.9 | -2.2 | -1.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -9.5 | -9.5 | -0.7 | -0.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | -1.9 | -1.9 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -70.2 | 58.7 | -128.9 | -277.3 | 88.1 | -365.5 | -2.2 | 44.1 | -46.2 | -10.3 | -65.0 | 54.6 | |||
| Long-term | -38.6 | -7.7 | -30.9 | 31.2 | 52.6 | -21.4 | -0.5 | -3.7 | 3.2 | 11.2 | 6.4 | 4.8 | |||
| Short-term | -31.6 | 66.4 | -98.0 | -308.5 | 35.5 | -344.0 | -1.7 | 47.8 | -49.5 | -21.5 | -71.4 | 49.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -30.4 | -140.6 | 110.2 | -55.8 | -110.5 | 54.7 | -29.1 | -19.1 | -10.0 | 8.8 | -9.9 | 18.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -48.1 | -48.1 | -51.1 | -51.1 | -9.0 | -9.0 | -15.5 | -15.5 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -9.6 | -9.6 | -9.0 | -9.0 | 2.2 | 2.2 | -0.1 | -0.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -15.2 | 14.2 | 0.4 | -0.7 | |||||||||||